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One of my major flaws

Posted on April 23rd, 2008.

I think of an absolute tonne of ideas to do with websites and web development but I rarely develop any of them. Sometimes, I may start to develop them but eventually, I give up because I’m not satisfied with what I do, and that’s what my major flaw is.

I guess I’m a perfectionist and as such, I waste a lot of time trying to “perfect” things. However, things don’t have to be perfect, and they never will be perfect because perfection is impossible to achieve. Why do I aim for it, then?

I’m not sure, I like to do well at things and put a lot of effort into everything that I do. However, sometimes putting all of the effort in really isn’t worth the reward at the end.

For example, if I spend ages designing a logo for a website and don’t like what I come up with, I won’t use that logo. As a result, I’ve just wasted a tonne of time on something which isn’t going to make or break the website. Essentially, I put effort into something with no worthwhile reward at the end. I should have chosen to work on something which would actually help my website.

When developing a site, you really need to spend time working on what’s actually important. For the site I’m currently developing, it’s the content and SEO which is most important, because it’s an information site and I want it to receive good search engine traffic. Why would I waste time on a logo?

That’s where the flaw is, I want the site to be perfect when it doesn’t need to be.

I’m getting into website flipping and that’s definitely something which requires you to just spruce things up. Aiming for perfection isn’t going to work, because then you’ll waste too much time and money on the site you’re trying to flip.

You need to get your priorities right (as do I), decide what things are actually going to make your site great and work on them. Don’t worry about things which aren’t important for your site.

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